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I was at it

By my rough calculation,Laois were 6/7 points ahead at half time.
Tipp made 11/12 changes for the second half,the wind was strong but didn't have a bearing on the final result.

As a portlaoise based Tipp man I can't have any complaints

Tipp have a squad of 40 in doing 5 nights a week since the start of the month.

Before that,they were on personalized S and C programmes.

as a Tipp man exiled up here,it's fairly obvious that the bulk of the laois team have some catching up to do in terms of S and C.

Initial Training Panel announced

Tipperary SH panel - Goalkeepers: Darren Gleeson, Brian Hogan.

Defenders: Cathal Barrett, James Barry, Conor O'Brien, Michael Cahill, Padraic Maher (vice-captain), Ronan Maher, Barry Heffernan, Michael Breen, Paddy Stapleton, John Meagher, Joe O'Dwyer, Liam Ryan, Seamus Kennedy, Tomas Hamill, Willie Ryan.

Midfielders: Brendan Maher (captain), Kieran Bergin, Bill Maher, Daire Quinn, Joe Gallagher.

Forwards: John O'Dwyer, Seamus Callanan, Niall O'Meara, Patrick Maher, Noel McGrath, Liam McGrath, John McGrath, Jason Forde, Gearoid Ryan, Adrian Ryan, Dan McCormack, Conor Kenny, Kieran Morris, Andrew Coffey, Sean Ryan, Sean Curran, Steven O'Brien, Dylan Fitzell.

Dear Santa

Please can I have the following for my team in 2016

A centre back

A new pair of midfielders

2 scoring forwards


Oh ps Santa they all should be to win possession,especially the aerial variety

Thanks

Mick Ryan
Upperchurch

Those are impressive numbers from 6 to 12 Helix.

Keep them at it and you won't have any need for any amalgamations

Helix,is Clonad not in with Ratheniska and the Heath for underage hurling?

Would an amalgamation of those clubs under one hurling set up promote and develop  hurling in that area and act as a 2nd senior team in the Portlaoise area?.

Just one point of clarity to your excellent post merman

The clubs aren't having to organise as many u8/u10  blitz's as there is a programme of 10 blitzes every 2 weekend during June/July/August.

This is done under the auspices of Go Games and laid out by the hurling GDA's.

We have 2 GDA's at the minute,I agree with you we could badly do with two more.

Good Post Merman

As a Tipp blow in to Laois who has lads playing u8,the structures are slowly coming together in Laois and the fruits won't be seen for another 15 years that's the reality.

What people also have to realize is Laois doesn't have the depth in terms yet of other counties,for example in u12 in Laois you have 3 divisions in the North division in Tipp you have 5 divisions.

That said it's great to see the likes of Portarlington and Slieve Margy playing hurling,there should be a target of getting another 2/3 underage teams set up and getting another underage set up into portlaoise,similar to what they have in thurles.

The U12's have been very competitive in the KK league with Abbeyleix winning it,that makes a huge difference as there seems to a belief in Laois that kk hurlers are a master race,which needs to dispelled at a young age

Kudos also to Abbeyleix who ran an u8 blitz last Saturday taking in the likes of Ballyhale and Kilcormac,from an outsider looking in they seem to being going about their underage business in the right way

Beaten by Tipp by 4 points behind closed doors in Semple on Sunday morning,both sides with close enough to the full compliment